* *OUTA petitions against holiday season “consultation”* * The government has used the holiday shutdown to sneak in the legally required public partic...
* *SANRAL’s decision on e-toll criminal charges whilst OUTA test case unfolds is wrong* * In addition, SANRAL plans to obtain default judgments agains...
* *France to drop carbon tax plan: Les Echos** * * The newspaper, quoting several sources, said the socialist government will not include the carbon t...
* *Carbon Tax: An unnecessary burden to South Africa** * * Recent announcements indicate that the Department of Treasury will implement the tax early ...
* *Premier Makhura gets it wrong on e-toll white elephant* * The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) refutes this claim outright, in that their exte...
**Stoychev court outcome not an e-toll issue** Obviously, SANRAL will milk the situation, and their behavior in this regard smacks of a highly opportu...
**Government's anti-poor fuel levy suggestions is futile* * “If this is indeed so, then government clearly has no regard for the poor, as they have in...
**Do the maths Minister: R3.65/litre is absurd* * Dipuo Peters’ statement that a further R3.65 will need to be added to the fuel levy, if indeed the f...
**E-toll payment and prosecution reprieve welcome* * “There is never a dull day in the e-toll fiasco,” says Wayne Duvenage, Chairman of the Opposition...
**E-toll reprieve proves the system is problematic* * “We believe that this announcement serves two purposes, one being another carrot to entice the p...
**OUTA requires funds for its “Rule of Law” campaign* * Since the recent announcement by Premier David Makhura to form a panel to review the impact of...
**OUTA requests SANRAL to clarify intent to prosecute* * The announcement by the new Gauteng Premier David Makhura to set up a special panel to review...
**SANRAL’s fuel levy argument “beyond simplistic”* * Following SANRAL CEO Nazir Allis campaigning in Kwa-Zulu Natal last week Mr Mona turned up in Cap...
**OUTA’s response to the SCA judgement* * After the North Gauteng High Court in December 2012 unexpectedly; decided that the public consultation condu...
**SANRAL proposes scrapping the fuel levy?* * SANRAL’s advertising claims that a fuel levy is not sustainable; citing amongst other things that it was...
**SANRAL continues to mislead public on e-tolls* * “We completely reject this claim,” says OUTA's chairperson, Wayne Duvenage. “If SANRAL were so effi...
**SANRAL’s financial woes of their own doing* * Besides a six month period when e-tolling was interdicted between 29 April and mid September 2012, SAN...
**E-tolls to further knock debt crisis* * Speaking in Johannesburg, OUTA's chairman, Wayne Duvenage echoed the concerns raised by the National Credit ...
**Justice and Peace Department Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference* * * * Faced with the wide spread public concern, protest and unhappiness ...
**Catholic Church Statement on e-tolls* * *Introduction* The prospect of extensive e-tolling on the freeways surrounding Johannesburg and Pretoria has...
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